James Grantham Turner

B.A. (1968), Cert.Ed., M.A., D.Phil. (1977) from Oxford University; taught at six British and US universities (Oxford, Sussex, Liverpool, Virginia, Northwestern, Michigan) before coming to Berkeley as Professor in 1990; currently holds the James D. Hart Chair. Fellowships include Guggenheim, NEH, and ACLS. 100-plus publications large and small since 1972. Invited lectures include keynote address to the Milton Society of America (1994) and the Charles Mills Gayley Lecture in this department (2001). Has served on the advisory board of PMLA, Eighteenth-Century Studies, ELH and Restoration, and contributed to the exhibition "Art and Love in Renaissance Italy" (2008) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. In Spring 2013 he was Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. His book Eros Visible: Art, Sexuality and Antiquity in Renaissance Italy will soon be published by Yale University Press

One Flesh: Paradisal Marriage and Sexual Relations in the Age of Milton
How did the myth of Adam and Eve affect historical understandings of sex and gender? Was sexuality the 'true Paradise' or the destroying serpent? These questions came to a head in Milton, torn between eroticism and hatred of the flesh, between patriarchal and egalitarian gender politics. Won the James Holly Hanford Award, 1988
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"Pepys and the Private Parts of Monarchy," in Gerald MacLean, ed., Culture and Society in the Stuart Restoration: Literature, Drama, History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), pp. 95-110

""News from the New Exchange': Commodity, Erotic Fantasy, and the Female Entrepreneur," in Ann Bermingham and John Brewer, eds., The Consumption of Culture, 1600-1800: Image, Object, Text (London and New York: Routledge, 1995), pp. 419-39

"From Revolution to Restoration in English Literary Culture," in The Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature, ed. David Loewenstein and Janel Mueller (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 790-833

""A Wanton Kind of Chase': Display as Procurement in A Harlot's Progress and its Reception," in Bernadette Fort and Angela Rosenthal, eds., The Other Hogarth: Aesthetics of Difference (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001), pp. 38-61. Book awarded the 2002-2003 Historians of British Art Prize for "best multi-authored/edited volume treating a topic on British visual culture from any period"

"`Great Agents for Libertinism': Rochester and Milton," in Religion, Culture and National Community in the 1670s, ed. Tony Claydon and Thomas N. Corns (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2011), pp. 99-126

A new multi-disciplinary history of sexuality post Foucault, exploring European literature (Classical through 18th century), social history, and art. Recent publication: "Invention and sexuality in the Raphael workshop" (in the journal Art History), "Peruzzi and the Villa Farnesina facade" (in the journal Master Drawings) . Work in progress: Eros Visible: Sexuality, Art, and Antiquity in Italy, 1499-1540, forthcoming from Yale University Press